Kirk: Spock! l’Enterprise sta per esplodere!!
Spock: Negativo, Capitano. È solo saltato un fusibile.
Leonard Nimoy (1931 – 2015)
L’artista greco stefanos ha elaborato un modo interessante per esprimere la propria insoddisfazione nei confronti delle istituzioni europee.
Il suo intervento consiste nel modificare le banconote, dipingendo in inchiostro nero figure angoscianti, emblematiche della situazione in cui versa il suo paese. Le banconote così modificate vengono poi scannerizzate per documentazione e rimesse in circolazione.
In una intervista ha dichiarato
Observing the euro banknote landscapes one notices a lack of any reality, whatsoever for the last five years the crumbling greek economy has hatched violence and social decay – so, I decided to fuse these two things. Through hacking the banknotes I’m using a european a document, that is in cross-border circulation, including greece – thus, the medium allows me to ‘bomb’ public property from the comfort of my home.
Altri esempi sono visibili qui.
Wow! Su You Tube c’è l’intero film (~ 1 ora) Halber Mensch (aka ½ Mensch, trad. half humans) di Sogo Ishii dedicato agli Einstürzende Neubauten.
Il film documenta la visita in Giappone della band tedesca e include estratti da alcuni concerti, scene girate mentre la band suona nelle rovine di una vecchia ferriera ed esecuzioni accompagnate da danzatori Butoh.
Venne girato nel 1985 e uscì nel 1986 su VHS per essere poi ristampato su DVD solo nel 2005. Pur essendo su DVD la qualità non è il massimo a causa del materiale di partenza in VHS e proprio per questo la band ne ha realizzato una versione rimasterizzata.
Il titolo è quello dell’album degli Einstürzende Neubauten pubblicato lo stesso anno della tournée giapponese. La formazione è:
Avevo già parlato di questo film in un post del 2007, ma allora ne avevo trovato solo un breve estratto.
Created by digital artist Takeshi Murata, this rippling, reflective sculpture was unveiled at Ratio 3 gallery as part of the Frieze art fair. Titled Melter 3-D, the sculptural animation is technically a zoetrope, and only achieves the illusion of motion with the help of a strobe lights or perfectly synchronized still images captured with a camera.
DarkAngelØne è un artista che lavora con le GIF animate. Anche se lui stesso, con una certa umiltà, afferma
Some people call me an artist, I say I’m just a guy who likes to play with photos
ottiene dei risultati sorprendenti. Cliccate l’immagine qui sotto per vedere l’animazione (datele il tempo di caricarsi: una GIF animata è composta da molte immagini e questa, in totale, è 2.5 Mb) e guardate.
Osmo è un ambiente costituito da una grande sfera (9 metri) gonfiabile in materiale sintetico leggero. Al suo interno è illuminata da raggi laser che simulano le stelle allo scopo di creare un ambiente isolato dall’esterno, apparentemente enorme perché il materiale è una pellicola in parte riflettente.
Ideato da Loop.pH, un laboratorio sperimentale londinese che lavora nell’area del design, dell’architettura e delle scienze che peraltro ha fatto varie installazioni interessanti, come si può vedere qui.
![]() |
![]() |
![]() |
![]() |
Un altra performance in cui la grafica computerizzata crea un ambiente virtuale con cui i danzatori interagiscono. Come spesso accade in questi casi, imho la musica lascia un po’ a desiderare, ma la parte grafica e l’interazione sono ben studiate, con alcune belle idee.
“Pixel”
Dance show – created in 2014
Pixel is a dance show for 11 dancers in a virtual and living visual environement. A work on illusion combining energy and poetry, fiction and technical achievement, hip hop and circus. A show at the crossroads of arts and at the crossroads of Adrien M / Claire B’s and Mourad Merzouki’s universes.
Artistic Direction and Choreography: Mourad Merzouki
Composed by Mourad Merzouki & Adrien M / Claire B
Digital Design: Adrien Mondot & Claire Bardainne
Music: Armand Amar
Produced by CCN de Créteil et du Val-de-Marne / Compagnie Käfig
This video is a cut of extracts from the actual show shot during the last day of creation on November the 14th 2014. Shooting and editing : Adrien M / Claire B.
Premiered at Maison des Arts de Créteil on November the 15th 2014. Duration of the show : 1h10.
The Adrien M / Claire B Company has been acting in the fields of the digital arts and performing arts since 2004. They create many forms of art, from stage performances to exhibitions combining real and virtual worlds with IT tools that were developed and customised specifically for them. They place the human body at the heart of technological and artistic challenges and adapt today’s technological tools to create a timeless poetry through a visual language based on playing and enjoyment, which breeds imagination. The projects are carried out by Adrien Mondot and Claire Bardainne. The company operates as a research and creativity workshop based out of Presqu’île in Lyon.
ARCHITECTURE AS AN INSTRUMENT
VIDEO DOCUMENTARIES ABOUT ARCHITECTURAL SPACES SET INTO VIBRATION
Since 2006, the Art of Failure collective has been sending bass frequencies into remarkable architectural structures. These experiences establish a dialog between architecture, the structures’ spatial components, and their geographic context – revealing building’s specific acoustic and vibrating qualities.
A projet by: Art of Failure
Art direction: Nicolas Maigret
Conception: Nicolas Maigret, Jeremy Gravayat, Nicolas Montgermont
Video / editing: Jérémy Gravayat
Sound recordings / Mixing: Yann Leguay
Sound installations: Nicolas Maigret, Nicolas Montgermont
Supports: Arcadi, Cnc Dicream, Cnap, Futur En Seine, Ville De Clichy – Production: Ososphere, Seconde Nature, Sonic Protest, Ars Longa, Gaite Lyrique
More on resonantarchitecture.com
Stereopublic è un progetto lanciato dal sound artist australiano Jason Sweeney. Il fine è quello di individuare e segnalare i punti più tranquilli di una città e condividerli. Sweeney, inoltre, compone un breve brano di ambient music per ogni luogo segnalato.
Si tratta di un progetto a libera partecipazione, nel senso che, dopo essersi registrato, chiunque può segnalare un luogo in qualsiasi città. Sulla mappa si vedono già parecchie città. Nell’immagine, alcuni luoghi di Londra.
È stata anche sviluppata una applicazione per cellulare, purtroppo solo per iPhone/iPad, il che limita notevolmente le potenzialità di un progetto di questo tipo, che invece conta molto sulla partecipazione pubblica.
stereopublic: crowdsourcing the quiet is a participatory art project that asks you to navigate your city for quiet spaces, share them with your social networks, take audio and visual snapshots, experience audio tours and request original compositions made using your recordings.
300 speakers, Pianola, vacuum cleaner, audio amplifiers, hard disc recorder, speaker wire, suction hose, piano roll
Notes from author’s site
John Wynne’s untitled installation for 300 speakers, player piano and vacuum cleaner is at once monumental, minimal and immersive. It uses sound and sculptural assemblage to explore and define architectural space and to investigate the borders between sound and music.
The piece has three interwoven sonic elements: the ambient sound of the space in which it is installed, the notes played by the piano, and a computer-controlled soundtrack consisting of synthetic sounds and gently manipulated notes from the piano itself. Because none of these elements are synchronised with each other, the composition will never repeat.
The music punched into the paper roll is Franz Léhar’s 1909 operetta Gypsy Love, but the mechanism has been altered to play at a very slow tempo and the Pianola modified to play only the notes which most excite the resonant frequencies of the gallery space in which it is installed.
Sound moves through the space on trajectories programmed using a 32-channel sound controller, creating a kind of epic, abstract 3-D opera in slow motion. Originally developed at Beaconsfield Gallery, a former Victorian ‘ragged school’ in South London, this piece draws on notions of obsolescence and nostalgia, combining early 20th -century technology and culture with a vast collection of recently discarded hi-fi speakers.
These disparate components are brought together through contemporary digital technology which not only distributes the sound but also controls the (found) vacuum cleaner which in turn drives the Pianola. The piece is site-specific, but it also carries traces of its own history: some of the synthetic sounds were created in response to the light industrial ambience of the work’s original location, some in response to its new site in the Saatchi Gallery. The mountainous formation of speakers, inspired by the recycling plant from which they were rescued, functions both visually and as a platform for the projection of sound, creating, in the words of writer Brandon LaBelle, ‘a soft balance between order and chaos, organization and its rupture’.